Yoko Ono and The Pet Shop Boys have recorded a cutting edge underground dance version of John’s final song - ’Walking on Thin Ice’. It is the track that she and John were working on that December night when murderer Mark Chapman asked for John’s autograph - then later returned to shoot the Liverpudlian star.

Yoko has released the song previously, but this is the first time it has been heard with its new lease of life. The first public outing of the song will be at a New York club on the eve of Yoko’s 70th birthday - but she has been asked to perform it over here at electro clubs Nag Nag Nag and The Cock in London.

She said: "I’m very excited that people love the record. I’ve been asked to come over to Britain and play in some electro clubs and I think I will do that.

Visit John’s House! - 17/02/03
Mendips’ - which is the childhood home of John Lennon is finally going to be opened to the public from next month.

Yoko Ono bought the semi detached suburban house of Mr Lennon for more than £150,000, as she wanted it to be preserved the way it was when John lived there.She then donated the house to the National Trust.

John lived with his Aunt Mimi at the house from the age of five to twenty-three - often practising his guitar in the porch as Mimi couldn’t stand the noise!

Live in John’s house! - 09/01/03
The National Trust say more than 20 people have applied for the custodian job at Mendips - the suburban semi in south Liverpool where Lennon lived with his aunt Mimi. Applications have come from as far afield as Australia.

The legendary singer/songwriter’s widow Yoko Ono paid more than £150,000 for the Menlove Avenue property and then donated it to the National Trust.

She wanted to ensure the house - where her late husband wrote the early "Fab Four" hit Please Please Me - remained accessible to the people of Liverpool.

John Lennon moved into the house when he was five and was reportedly only allowed to play his guitar in the glazed front-porch of the property.

Mendips is due to open to the public in March and visitors will be offered combined tours of both it and Sir Paul McCartney’s boyhood home in nearby Forthlin Road.

Just imagine - new memrobelia! - 24/10/02
Two never heard before music tapes of John Lennon will be auctioned next month. Fans of the former Beatle and collectors of John Lennon memrobelia will be lining up to bid for the home-made tapes - which were made during 1970 while John was at the home of Yoko Ono’s former husband Tony Cox in Denmark.

They are to be auctioned as part of Cooper Owen’s Beatles sale on November 19th and are expected to reach the dizzying heights of between £60-80,000. That puts me out of the bidding then.

Yoko unveils John Lennon Statue - 14/03/02
On march 15th, Yoko Ono and Cherie Booth Q.C unveiled the new John lennon statue, inside the new terminal of Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

The statue is a 7ft bronze, sculpted by Tom Murphey. The ceremony will take place on the main passenger walkway in the Airpot’s new £32.5 million passenger terminal.

The unveiling completes the re-naming of the airport to Liverpool John Lennon airport. A selection of John’s own drawings are being exhibited in the main check-in hall, this is only set to run for a few days though, as then they are being shipped back to New York.